I want to bring to your attention an important petition on this site. You, your friends and your family can sign it to help protect L’ANSE-À-L’ORME.

PETITION:

We, the undersigned, request that the City of Montreal and the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro conserve and protect the total area of Rivière à l’Orme Ecoforest Corridor where a proposed residential development to build 6,000 housing units could destroy 185 hectares of natural spaces.

Our natural ecosystems are very important; they allow us to adapt to the negative impacts caused by climate change. Natural areas in proximity to urban centers play a very important role as buffer zones and deserve to be preserved.

Their ecosystems provide many benefits, they prevent local flooding, filter air and water, promote pollination, provide erosion control, climate regulation, supply water and provide recreation areas and tourism services. This development will destroy the ecosystem and its local and unique biodiversity. It will have a negative effect in the quality of life of citizens by bringing more than 10,000 cars and would increase property taxes for all Borough residents who will pay for the construction of this residential development in a non-serviced area.

Please get involved and sign this very important petition. You can go directly to the petition HERE

You can also download and print the petition as a PDF document : Petiton – SAVE L’ANSE-À-L’ORME Once printed you can have your friends, family and neighbors sign it to help SAVE L’ANSE-À-L’ORME.

To all concerned residents of Montreal and friends, from the Green Coalition.

PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO MAYOR DENIS CODERRE: Save the 185 hectares targeted for a monster development at Anse-à-l’Orme in Pierrefonds West!

A monster development is being planned – up to 6,000 housing units, some 16,000 new residents, adding 10,000 more cars to West Island ’s traffic gridlock. Instead of this unacceptable encroachment on the l’Anse-à-l’Orme Corridor, the Green Coalition and the Mouvement Ceinture Verte are appealing to the Coderre administration to conserve the 185 hectares of prime farmland “en friche” and to protect its outstanding habitat and biodiversity.

For more information, a sample letter and a communiqué is attached.

Please write a letter, in your own words, to Mayor Denis Coderre and send a copy to Mr. Jim Beis, Mayor of Pierrefonds-Roxboro and to Mr. Russell Copeman, Ville de Montréal executive committee member for housing and urban planning.

Denis Coderre : maire@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Jim Beis : dimitrios.beis@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Russel Copeman : russell.copeman@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Also, please send a copy to the Green Coalition and to the Mouvement Ceinture Verte so that we can keep a record of the letters.

greencoalitionverte@yahoo.ca

mouvement.ceinture.verte@gmail.com

Kindly circulate this message as widely as possible.

Thank you for helping to protect and conserve Montreal ’s natural heritage for our children and grandchildren.